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5 May 2001

Issue 2289

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Curse this house

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Physics

Doppelgänger

Features
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Mammoth mystery

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Going up

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News

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It's a clincher

AFTER carefully studying the faint microwave echo of the big bang, three teams of astrophysicists say that our Universe really did start out much smaller than an atom and then expanded faster than light, exploding in size during its first fraction of a second in existence. It's the best evidence yet for what's called "inflation" …

News

Spinning a yarn for miniature electronics

News

Smooth operator

News

Play it again RAM

News

Technology

Stick 'em up!

News

Technology

Stunning truncheon

News

Technology

Giving flu the slip

News

When your feet hardly touch the ground

News

Instant attraction

News

Star studied

News

Brainy worms

News

Satisfaction guaranteed

News

Nano division

News

Banning the flames

News

Take a breather

News

Roll up, roll up

News

Listen with grandma

News

If you want to know the time, ask a bubble

News

A real eye-opener

News

A hot rain's gonna fall

News

Flying life raft

News

Of mice and men

News

Head start

News

Life-saving tests make people think they will die

News

C'est le vaccin

News

Caribou crash

News

Urban heroes

News

Lonely planet

News

What's in a fingerprint

News

Humans

Could it be you?

News

Snap to it

News

Unstoppableforce of nature

News

No MMR link

News

Patent protest

News

Sign up for Io

News

All that fuss and no one's got foot and mouth

News

Software design misled doomed Osprey pilots

News

The Big Flip

News

Running wild

News

In the thick of it

News

Opinion

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Westminster Diary

PRESIDENT George W. Bush opposes the Kyoto Protocol to stem global warming. That dismays me greatly as it does many others (New Scientist, 7 April, p 3) . I asked environment minister Michael Meacher what Britain can do to persuade the Americans to think again. Meacher replied that climate change is a global problem and …

Opinion

Taking flight

Opinion

A ripple in the pond

Opinion

We're all suspects now

Opinion

Features

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Curse this house

IT'S playtime at Emma's house. Children in constant motion seem to be everywhere—under the dining room table, playing with toys, hugging the dog. Oops, Emma's eating Cheerios off the carpet and Johnny's licking the coffee table. Johnny, who is two, may put 76 things in his mouth in the course of an hour—toys, his fingers, …

Features

Physics

Doppelgänger

Features

Mammoth mystery

Features

Going up

Features

More

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States of mind

The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological theories of race at the millennium by Joseph Graves, Rutgers, $28, ISBN 081352847X IN 1999, the states of Kansas, Kentucky and New Mexico removed any explicit reference to evolution from their school science curricula. Joseph Graves, an evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, thinks this kind of action …

Books & Arts

Living the Island Life

Books & Arts

Not Meek, Inheriting Anyway

Books & Arts

That Red One, Over There, See?

Books & Arts

Hack Into This

Books & Arts

Don't Buy a Lottery Ticket

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

WE REPORTED a couple of weeks ago on a strange article in the British Medical Journal about how Viagra can make cut flowers stand up straight—incidentally, the article was in volume 319, not 313 as stated (Feedback, 21 April). Now we have come across another odd article in the journal, this time in vol 321, …

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